2025 Retrospective

In 2025 I archived 13,975 photos, 4,077 of which I marked as favorites. (2024: 16,217 archived, 4,633 favorites). That is the smallest number since I have been actively tracking it. One of the main reasons is probably that I am attending fewer events as a photographer.

20% of images I tagged “home”, which means I took them at and around my home (28% in 2024). 40% of my 2025 images have at least one of my daughters in them. Documenting my family – as always – has been by far the most important part of my photographic practice. It is a bit less than in previous years, but that’s probably due to the fact that my daughters are starting to spend more time outside, with friends, etc., where I am not always with them. It will be interesting to see how that number shifts when they grow even older.

Cameras: The Fujifilm X-T5 has held onto the top spot of my most used camera, with 42% (58% in 2024). My Leicas have gained back a bit of ground with the Leica M10-P at 35% (vs. 33% last year) and the Leica Q – in third place – with 16% (9% in 2024). I had an M11 Monochrom loaner for a couple of weeks with which I made 5% of my 2025 photographs.

The month with the most pictures taken – 1,731 of them – was November.

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Books I created in 2025

I created four books in 2025:

Project 366 Zine – Part IV, 128 pages, January 2025

Elvan Matilda Lumi 8: Eighth year in the life of my daughter Lumi, 240 pages, March 2025

Egmond, 2025: Our family summer vacation in the Netherlands, 100 pages, August 2025

Zila Erna Suvi 6: Sixth year in the life of my daughter Suvi, 240 pages, December 2025

(Books I created in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020)